With its debut back in 2021, we talked about the Witch Watch series as it saw a quick English pickup as a simulpub from Viz Media and Manga Plus. The property comes from Kenta Shinohara who brought out the long-running Sket Dance series and the shorter Astra Lost in Space, both of which saw anime adaptations. Back in early July 2024, we talked about how there was a possibility of an anime adaptation as a site domain was registered for it. The show was formally announced in August 2024 with an April 2025 debut.
The two-cour series is getting its streaming through Crunchyroll and Netflix but it’s also getting a special theatrical event through GKIDS. With an April 6th, 2025 premiere date set, the latest update has come in from GKIDS as they’ve brought out a new English dubbed trailer for it while setting the main cast for the dub with:
- Lily Pichu as Nico Wakatsuki
- Stephen Fu as Morihito Otogi
- Caleb Yen as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
- Kevin K. Gomez as Keigo Magami
- Cristina Vee as Nemu Miyao
- Kyle Hebert as Reiji Otogi
The show has Hiroshi Ikehata directing it with Masao Kawase assisting from the scripts overseen by Deko Akao. Haruko Iizuka is handling the character designs with Bibury Animation Studio on the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Ryota Suzuki as Morihito Otogi
- Rina Kawaguchi as Nico Wakatsuki
- Tomori Kusunoki as Nemu Miyao
- Kohei Amasaki as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
- Kaito Ishikawa as Magami Keigo
- Mikako Komatsu as Yūri Makuwa
- Konomi Kohara as Kukumi Ureshino
- Rie Takahashi as Kara Minami
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tenryū Kiyomiya
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Ibara Ibu
- Jun Fukuyama as Yuzuru Kenmochi
- Rie Kugimiya as Syrup
- Misaki Kuno as Kuromitsu
- Noriko Hidaka as Riro Takumi
- Kenta Miyake as Burst
- Jun Fukushima as Kyōki Saiko
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Daiki Sakai MK. II
- Nana Mizuki as Nico’s mother Ibuki Wakatsuki
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Morihito’s father, Reiji Otogi
The manga is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan for Shueisha and has seventeen volumes released so far there with the eighteenth set for a September 4th, 2024 release.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Morihito, a boy with the strength of an ogre, is about to start living together with his childhood friend NIko, who is training to be a witch. NIko’s magic leads to all sorts of unpredictable trouble, and with two teens under one roof… Let the fantastical antics begin! Magical comedy series by Kenta Shinohara creator of SKET DANCE and Astra Lost in Space.
Previous promos and visuals:
